Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-10-07

WHICH WIS uSeU Dluc w VI ScAAS
other color, according to the social stand
ing Of the wearer, hung down in front, the
right arm and breast being, however. left
quite bare. A more becoming dress, espec-
ialIy when. as In the present case, the
wearer was young and pretty, it is quite
impossible to conceive. Good twho has an
eye for such things wasgreatiy struck with
it, and so indeed was |. 1t was so simple
and yet so effective.
Meanwhile If we had been astonished at
the appearance of the man and woman, it
was clear that they were far more aston
ished at us. AS for the man, he appeared
to be overcome with fear and wonder, and
for awhile lowered round our canoe, but
would not approach. At last, however, he
came within hailing distance, and called
TO us in language that sounded soft and
pleasing enough, but OF which we could
not understand one word. So we hailed
back in English, French, Latin, Greek,
German, Zulu, Dutch, Sisutu, Kukuana,
and few other native dialects that am
acquainted with, but our visitor did not
understand any of these tongues; indeed,
they appeared 70 bewilder him. As for the
lady, she was busily employed in taking
stock of US, and Good was returning the
compliment by staring at her hard through
hts eyeglass, Il proceeding that she seemed
rather to enjoy than otherwise. Atlength
the man, being unable to make anything
out OF us, suddenly headed his boat round
and began to head of for the shore, his
little boat skimming away before the wind
like swallow. AS she passed across our
bow the man turned to attend TO the large
sail, and Good promptly took the opportuni-
ty TO kiss his hand to the young lady. L
was Mortified at thi. proceeding, both on
general grounds and because | feared she
might take offense; but to my delight she
did not, for. first CHANGING round and see
ing that her husband, or brother or who
ever It was was engaged, she promptly
kissed hers back.
"Ah!' said |, 1T seems that we have at
last found language that the people OF
this country understand"
"In which case" said Sir Henry, Good
will prove an invaluable interpreter"
frowned, for do not approve Of Goods
frivolities. and he knows it, and turned
the conversation to more serious subjects.
at is very clear to me-" said, that that
man viii be back before long with host
of his fellows; 50 we had best make up our
minds as to how we are going to receive
them"
1.-The question /. how will they receive
us, said Sir Henry.
AS for Good he made no remark: but be-
gan TO extract a small square tin case, that
had accompanied us in all our wanderings,
from under pile of things. Now we had
often demonstrated with Good about this
tin case, inasmuch rs it had been an awk-
ward thing to carry, and he had never
given any very explicit account as to its
contents: but he had insisted on sticking
to it, saying mysteriously that It might
come in very useful one day.
What on earth are you going to do,
Good?' asked Sir Henry
"Do2 Why dress, of counsel You don't
expect me to appear in a new country in
these things. do youY' and he pointed to
his soiled and worn garments, which were,
however, like all Goods things very tidy,
and with every tear neatly nandCd.
We said no more but watched his pro-
ceedings with breathlcsS interest. Ills
first step was to get Alphonse, who was
thoroughly competent in such matters, to
trim his hair ana beard In the most ap-
proved fashion. | think that if he had had
some hot water and a cake of soap handy
he would have shaved Off the latter; but he
had not This done he suggested that we
should lower the sail of the canoe and all
take Il bath, which We did, greatly to the
horror and establishment of AlphOnse, who
lifted his hands and calculated that these
English were indeed wonderful people.
UmslOpoGaas, who, though he was, like
most high-bred Xulus, sCrupulously clearly
in his person, did not see the fun of swim
ming about in Il lake, also regarded the pro-
cccdiHy with mild amusement. VIC got
back into the canoe much refreshed b. the
cold water and sat to dry in the sun, whilst
Good uadid his tin box, and Produced first
beautiful! clean white shirt, just rs ii had
left London steam laundry, and then
some garments wrapped first in brown,
then IN white, and finally in silver paper.
We watched this undoing with the tender
est interest and much speculation. One
by one Good removed the dun hushs that
hid their splcndors, carefully folding and
replacing each piece uf paper as he did SO;
and there at last lay in all the m"j"sty Of
It's gold cpauictS, lace, ana buttons, II Com
mandcr of the Royal Nays fuildrcSS uni
form-dreSs sword, cooked hat, shiny pat
cnt leather boots and all. We literally
gaspcd
'IIh0tr' we said, "whGN Are you going
to put those things on?"
"CcrtHiuly,' he answered, compOScdly;
''NoH see 50 much depends upon Il first
Impression, especially he added, "as
observe that there are ladies about. One
at least uf us ought tub" GrCcntly dressed"
We said no more: we were simply dunn
founded, especially when we considered
the artful way in which Good had conceal
ed the contents OF that box for all these
months Ouly one suggestion did we
make, namely, that he should wear his
mail shirt next his skin. He replied that
he feared il would spoil the fit of his coat,
now carefully spread In the sun to take
the crcaSes out, but finally consented to
this precautionary measure The most
amusing part of the affair however, was
TO see old UmSlOpogaas' astonlshment and
!hlphonse's delight at Goods tranSf0rma-
ton. When ut last he stood up IN all his
glory, even down to the medals ON his
breast, and contemplated himself in the
still waters OF the lake. after the fashion
of the young gentleman in ancient history
whose name y can't remember, but who
fell in love with his own shadow, the old
LuIu could no longer restrain his feelings.
"Oh, Bougwanr' he said "Oh, Bouy-
wani always thought thee an ugly little
man, and iat-fat as the cows Mt calving
time, and now thou art like blue jay
when he spreads his tail out Surely.
Bougwan, it hurts my eyes to look ut thee"
Good did not much like this allusion TO
his fat, which, to tell the truth, was not
very well deserved, for hard exercise had
brought him down four inches; but, on the
whole, he was pleased at UmSlopoGals' adj
miration. AS for AlphonSc, lie was quite
delighted.
"Ah but monsieur has the beautiful air
the air of the warrior 1t is the ladies
who willsay so when W e come to get ashore.
Monsieur is complete; he puts me in mind
of my heroic grand"
Here we stopped Alphonse.
As we gazed upon these beauties thus
revealed by Good. spirit of emulation
filed our breasts; and we set to work to
get ourselves up as well rs we could. The
most however. that we were able to do
was To array ourselves in our spare suits
of shooting ClDt hes of which up each had